Seventeen years and several thousand air miles separate the two self-portraits, taken in Shanghai in 2006 and in Paris in 2023 respectively.

The Korean video artist Nam Jun Paik once proclaimed: „When too perfect, lieber Gott böse“, reminding us that perfection is not the measure of all things. And yet it is always being demanded while women bodies are the battleground on which these demands are made, be it in fashion or on social media. A woman can never be enough.